lawfully
adverbattested in dialogue
Conforming to the law; legally.
adverb
- 1
Conforming to the law; legally.
This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.
He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”
Etymology
From Middle English lawefully, lawfulliche, lawefulliche; equivalent to lawful + -ly.
Forms
- comparative
- more lawfully
- superlative
- most lawfully